Alice Leaves The Garden

Listen: A song from the musical

 

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As soon as I retired from the theatre my Kemptown friend, musician David Ingledew, commissioned me to write the book of a musical called ALICE’S WORLD.  He had written beautiful songs, music and lyrics, and it was my job to build a script, i.e. a libretto, around them without changing a word.

We added one song for the character of the Dormouse and David wrote another song for the White Rabbit, a female character whose transformation from a subservient worried creature, through an avenging Red Queen, and finally to a grieving parent, reflects the spine of my new interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s work, all in the spirit of championing his campaign for repressed Victorian children.

ALICE’S WORLD was produced at the Brighton Festival, and won first place at the Moondance International Film Festival for Children’s Theater but because the musical is difficult to produce I wrote the libretto into a prose story, entitled ALICE LEAVES THE GARDEN.

To read the child’s book written after the musical online click on this link: Alice Leaves the Garden
To download, if you are on a mac, ctrl-click on the link
If you are on a PC, right-click on the link

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This is the children’s book I wrote after writing the musical Alice’s World, music and lyrics by David Ingledew.

Alice Leaves The Garden
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ALICE’S WORLD was produced at the Brighton Festival, and won first place at the Moondance International Film Festival for Children’s Theater but because the musical is difficult to produce I wrote the libretto into a prose story, entitled ALICE LEAVES THE GARDEN.

To read the child’s book written after the musical online click on this link: Alice Leaves the Garden
To download, if you are on a mac, ctrl-click on the link
If you are on a PC, right-click on the link

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There is also a book of Alice Leaves The Garden, entitled Alice Leaves Wonderland, written in 2010.
To read the book online click on this link: Alice Leaves The Garden
To download, if you are on a mac, ctrl-click on the link
If you are on a PC, right-click on the link

 

 

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To read the play online click on this link: ALICE LEAVES WONDERLAND
To download, if you are on a mac, ctrl-click on the link
If you are on a PC, right-click on the link

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